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A) Purely intellectual B) Mostly physical C) Deeply spiritual D) Based on shared political views
A) Doctor and researcher B) Pharmacist and lab technician C) Nurse and medical student D) Surgeon and administrator
A) A visitor from the zoo B) One of Kostoglotov's doctors C) A fellow patient in the hospital D) A head nurse in the cancer ward
A) Widowed with several children B) Secretly engaged to an exile C) Young and recently divorced D) Middle-aged and has never married
A) Because the hospital demanded they monitor him B) Because he is still recovering from a major surgery C) Because he has nowhere to sleep due to his exile status D) Because he lost his wallet at the train station
A) To buy her expensive gifts from the city market B) To lie at her feet like a beaten dog and breathe on her feet C) To travel with her to Ush-Terek immediately D) To write political poetry about her beauty
A) He can easily integrate back into normal society B) Russia is finally recovering and a golden age of freedom has begun C) The damage done was too great, and there will be no healing now that Stalin has gone D) Stalin's absence will instantly cure all societal ailments
A) To the railway station in Ush-Terek B) Back to his apartment in Moscow C) To a government office for exile registration D) To a zoo
A) Foreign leaders B) People he knew C) The doctors from the ward D) His prison guards
A) Because the cages were locked with unbreakable steel B) Because deprived of their home surroundings, they had lost the idea of rational freedom C) Because the animals looked completely happy in captivity D) Because he was afraid of being arrested by the zookeepers
A) It contracted a severe disease from a visitor B) It stared directly into the glaring sun C) It was part of a cruel medical experiment D) An evil man threw tobacco into its eyes
A) The fact that it was written in English B) The absence of propaganda C) The poor spelling in the note D) The mention of Stalin's name
A) As a victim of the political regime B) As just an evil man C) As an agent of American imperialism D) As an anti-humanist propagandist
A) He decides to marry Zoya immediately B) He decides against going to see them C) He sends them both a formal invitation D) He goes to Zoya's apartment for dinner
A) She slams the door in his face because he is late B) He gets lost and never reaches her apartment C) They have a wonderful evening and make plans to wed D) He has left it so late that she is no longer there, and he decides not to try again
A) Hormone therapy may have left him impotent B) His legs will remain paralyzed C) He might lose his eyesight permanently D) His voice will be completely destroyed
A) To accept less than he had hoped for and face it alone B) To fight for a high-ranking political position C) To demand compensation from the hospital D) To travel the world with Zoya
A) To the local police station to report his exile status B) To a hotel in the center of the city C) To the railway station to fight his way onto a train to Ush-Terek D) Back to the cancer ward to ask for more treatment
A) The distant village to which he had been exiled B) The hometown of Vera Gangart C) The capital city where he was born D) A famous health resort in the mountains
A) That he is moving to America to escape his past B) That he is returning to the hospital to marry her C) That he blames her for his impotence D) That she will come to bless the day she did not commit to share his life
A) That he hated her intellectual conversations B) That he wanted to borrow money from her for his train ticket C) That he always wanted to pick her up and kiss her on the lips D) That he planned to steal her apartment
A) A GULAG prison camp B) A squalid hospital C) A botanical garden D) A luxury sanatorium
A) Kislovodsk B) Tashkent C) Leningrad D) Kazakhstan
A) Kazakhstan B) Leningrad C) Tashkent D) Kislovodsk
A) Kislovodsk B) Tashkent C) Moscow D) Leningrad
A) Jeffrey Meyers B) The clinic doctor C) Pavel Nikolayevich Rusanov D) Kostoglotov
A) Personnel officer B) Literary critic C) Natural healer D) Military general
A) Mirabad Amusement Park B) Chorsu Bazaar C) Red Square D) Issyk-Kul Lake
A) Fyodor Dostoevsky B) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn C) Leo Tolstoy D) Anton Chekhov
A) Booker Prize B) Nobel Prize C) Pulitzer Prize D) Man Booker International Prize
A) 1936 B) 1966 C) 1955 D) 1968
A) Official state publishing houses B) Samizdat C) Radio broadcasts D) State-run newspapers
A) 1966 B) 1970 C) 1968 D) 1956
A) The Guardian B) The New York Times C) Times Literary Supplement D) London Review of Books
A) Penguin Books B) HarperCollins C) Macmillan D) The Bodley Head
A) Simon & Schuster B) Doubleday C) Random House D) Dial Press
A) Ward 7 B) Ward 13 C) Ward 5 D) Ward 20
A) Tashkent B) Leningrad C) Moscow D) Kiev
A) Ukrainian SSR B) Soviet Uzbekistan C) Georgian SSR D) Byelorussian SSR
A) 1968 B) 1966 C) 1955 D) 1936
A) Andrei Rublev B) Oleg Kostoglotov C) Yuri Zhivago D) Ivan Denisovich
A) Economic saboteur B) Foreign spy C) Counter-revolutionary D) Double agent
A) Article 120 B) Article 42 C) Article 58 D) Article 10
A) 1941–1945 B) 1950–1953 C) 1924–1928 D) 1936–1938
A) Demand the firing squad B) Remain completely silent C) Sign petitions for pardon D) Protest outside the courthouse
A) Lavrenti Beria B) Nikolai Yezhov C) Genrikh Yagoda D) Viktor Abakumov
A) Georgy Malenkov B) Leonid Brezhnev C) Mikhail Gorbachev D) Nikita Khrushchev
A) 1956 B) 1953 C) 1955 D) 1966
A) Vyacheslav Molotov B) Nikita Khrushchev C) Lavrenti Beria D) Georgy Malenkov
A) The political prisoner B) The censor C) The camp guard D) The average worker
A) The squirrel B) The bear C) The tiger D) The macaque
A) The political elite B) The camp inmates C) The proletariat D) The secret police
A) Mid-1966 B) Late 1964 C) Mid-1968 D) Early 1965
A) Dial Press B) Novy Mir C) Times Literary Supplement D) The Bodley Head
A) Lev Leonidovich B) Tvardosky C) Joseph Pearce D) Kostoglotov
A) London B) Moscow C) Leningrad D) St. Petersburg
A) Vera Kornilyevna B) Tvardosky C) Joseph Pearce D) Solzhenitsyn
A) A Japanese journalist B) An American publisher C) A British editor D) A French novelist
A) Olympiada Vladislavovna B) Ludmila Afanasyevna Dontsova C) Yevgenia Ustinovna D) Vera Kornilyevna Gangart
A) Vera Kornilyevna Gangart B) Yevgenia Ustinovna C) Ludmila Afanasyevna Dontsova D) Zoya
A) Zoya B) Olympiada Vladislavovna C) Elizaveta Anatolyevna D) Nellya
A) Joseph Pearce B) Tvardosky C) Lev Leonidovich D) Nizamutdin Bahramovich
A) Zoya B) Vera Kornilyevna C) Yevgenia Ustinovna D) Olympiada Vladislavovna
A) Clinic director B) Radiotherapy head C) Food orderly D) Head surgeon
A) Elizaveta Anatolyevna B) Olympiada Vladislavovna C) Nellya D) Zoya
A) Joseph Pearce B) Nizamutdin Bahramovich C) Tvardosky D) Lev Leonidovich
A) Nellya B) Elizaveta Anatolyevna C) Zoya D) Olympiada Vladislavovna
A) Life taker B) Soul stealer C) Heart breaker D) Bone swallower
A) Leningrad B) Moscow C) Ush Terek D) Siberia
A) Melanoblastoma B) Lymphoma C) Rectal cancer D) Spinal cancer
A) Alla Pavlovna B) Maika C) Ludmilla Afanasyevna D) Kapitolina Matveyevna
A) Geologist B) Librarian C) Doctor D) Prosecutor
A) Rectal cancer B) Spinal cancer C) Melanoblastoma D) Lymphoma
A) Smuggler B) Geologist C) Overseer D) Librarian
A) Rectal cancer B) Lymphoma C) Spinal cancer D) Melanoblastoma
A) Librarian B) Student C) Gymnast D) Poet
A) Removal of a tumor B) Mastectomy C) Amputation of her leg D) Brain surgery
A) Sharaf Sibgatov B) Ahmadjan C) Yefrem Podduyev D) Maxim Petrovich Chaly
A) Rectal cancer B) Melanoblastoma C) Crippling spinal cancer D) Lymphoma
A) Sharaf Sibgatov B) Yefrem Podduyev C) Ahmadjan D) Friedrich Federau
A) Russian German B) Ukrainian C) Tatar D) Uzbek
A) Leo Tolstoy B) Anton Chekhov C) Lavrentiy Beria D) Fyodor Dostoevsky
A) Geologist B) Prison camp guard C) Strong overseer D) Smuggler
A) Dormidont Tikhonovich Oreshchenkov B) Friedrich Federau C) Dr. Maslennikov D) Maxim Petrovich Chaly
A) Prison camp guard B) Smuggler C) Librarian D) Geologist
A) Dormidont Tikhonovich Oreshchenkov B) Dr. Maslennikov C) Pavel Nikolayevich Rusanov D) Maxim Petrovich Chaly
A) The Kadmins B) The Federaus C) The Oreshchenkovs D) The Rusanovs
A) Kapitolina, a librarian B) Aviette, a poet C) Ludmilla, a doctor D) Maika, a gymnast
A) Overseer B) Prosecutor C) Geologist D) Smuggler
A) Dr. Maslennikov B) Ludmilla Afanasyevna C) Dormidont Tikhonovich Oreshchenkov D) Aleksei Filippovich Shulubin
A) A type of root B) Mineral extract C) Mountain herb D) Birch fungus |